Yakov Yurovsky

Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky (19 June 1878 – 2 August 1938) was a chief executioner of Romanov family.

In July 4, 1918, Yurovsky became the commandant of the Ipatiev House by the decision of the Ural Council. He led the direct execution of the execution of the royal family on the night of July 16 to July 17, 1918.

Biography
Yakov Mikhailovich Yurovsky was the eighth of ten children born to Mikhail Yurovsky, a glazier, and his wife Ester Moiseevna, a seamstress. He was born on 19 June  1878 in the Siberian city of Tomsk, Russia. The Yurovsky family is of Jewish origin:The historian Helen Rappaport writes that the young Yurovsky studied the Talmud in his early youth, while the family seems to have later attempted to distance themselves from their Jewish roots; this may have been prompted by the prejudice toward Jews frequently exhibited in Russia at the time.

Shortly before fully devoting himself to the cause of revolution, in the early twentieth century Yurovsky converted to Lutheranism.

A watchmaker by trade, he lived for a short time in the German Empire in 1904.

After returning to Russia during the Russian Revolution of 1905, he joined the Bolsheviks. Arrested several times over the years, he became a devoted Marxist.

He was a Chekist for a short period of time in 1917.

In 1918, he met with templar guards at Yekaterinburg, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. They planned to execute the royal family to reclaim the Precursor boxes. It was eavesdropped by Assassin Nikolai Orelov